Parry Parries Again: Reanimating the Famous Paranoid Chatbot (In a Day)
Summary
The article chronicles a rapid, single-day effort to reanimate PARRY, the famous paranoid chatbot from 1972, and have it interact with ELIZA via an RFC439-inspired setup. It describes finding a working WAITS/MLISP environment, running PARRY, and documenting the quasi-replication of the RFC439 interaction, with references and pointers to historical resources.